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Bitwarden Automated Backup

Introduction The purpose of this backup process arose from a moment when I broke my phone. My phone was my lone source of MFA/2FA codes via the authenticator app, and I genuinely felt terror tha...

Configuring Postfix with Gmail

Email is often a critical component notification for jobs and other things in linux. This is how I set up Postfix on most of my instances. This guide is geared towards Debian based distros but can ...

Installing Debian on Dell Wyse 3040

Recently picked up a very low power Dell Wyse 3040 to use as a headless docker host. It is powered by a quad-core Intel Atom Z8350 so not a lot of horsepower. It runs like a x64 Raspberry Pi. Insta...

Show IP on TTY Login Prompt

When I first log into a linux instance I’ve set up, I often look to find the ethernet adapter details. To make this easier, I like to add the IP address to the TTY login screen. This is a nice thin...

Backing up a Raspberry Pi Live

In a effort to keep all my devices backed up, I have been looking into a way to backup my Raspberry Pi devices. Approach My criteria for success, in order, has been: Accurate Testable Eas...

Mounting a SMB Share at Boot

Very frequently I need to mount SMB2 or SMB3 shares inside of my linux devices. To do so I usually use fstab. Dependencies You will need to install Samba and CIFS utilities sudo apt update sudo ...

Git Credential Caching

Having a local git repo configured, I haven’t yet set up ssh authentication. Instead I use HTTPS with a username and password. It can be tiresome typing in the login credentials over and over, so I...

Reaching Quorum in Proxmox with an External QDevice

Having only two nodes in my Proxmox cluster, I wanted to add a third external device to keep quorum during reboots or other outages. To do so I added an external qdevice as a node which works as a ...

Autostarting Uctronics Raspberry Pi OLED Display

This is a quick setup for both the Uctronics display code, and the startup service. I will also give an example using rc.local. Preparing the Pi You will need to activate I2C on your raspberry ...

Configuring Home Assistant for Reverse Proxy

This is a quick reminder for the code that needs to be added to the Home Assistant configuration YAML to get things working with a reverse proxy. In the terminal, edit the configuration YAML na...